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McAdoo and the Browns coaching stew. Good luck selling that.

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By Steve Doerschuk

My big brother’s prize for “best costume” at a long-ago downtown Canton Halloween party was a white football signed by the 1964 Browns. He gave it to me a few years ago. The Browns have masqueraded as an NFL team for too many of the years since we
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My big brother’s prize for “best costume” at a long-ago downtown Canton Halloween party was a white football signed by the 1964 Browns. He gave it to me a few years ago. The Browns have masqueraded as an NFL team for too many of the years since we played tackle football in our yard on Sherman Church Road. I have no plans to punt that ball, though.

Nothing against assistant coaches who do marvelous things with great quarterbacks, but ...

Shouldn’t the Browns at least be thinking about assistants who have done more with less?

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The Packers went 6-3 (including the playoff loss to San Francisco) with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback.

They were 2-5-1 without Rodgers.

That’s not to say Ben McAdoo, the Green Bay quarterbacks coach who is interviewing with the Browns, isn’t a good coach. It simply ties to the first point.

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It would be next to impossible for Jimmy Haslam to sell McAdoo as the next head coach, although “HC” ostensibly is what McAdoo is interview for. What Browns fan would go wild for a 36-year-old quarterbacks coach with no name outside coaching circles?

This would involve a lot of trust for Joe Banner and Michael Lombardi, and trust is in short supply.

Interviewing McAdoo makes more sense if he is being studied as an option to replace Norv Turner as offensive coordinator. However, McAdoo’s background is in a Holmgren-style offense, and it would be slightly maddening to have gone from a Belichick offense (with Mangini) in 2010 to a Holmgren offense (with Shurmur) in 2011 to Turner’s approach in 2013 back to the Holmgren stuff now.

But then, the Holmgren system is an Andy Reid deal, and Joe Banner’s comfort zone is Andy Reid. But Lombardi’s is, or might be, Belichickian.

Somehow, Haslam needs to keep this from being more of a convoluted mess than it already is.

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Josh McDaniels (Tom Brady), Adam Gase(Peyton Manning) and McAdoo (Rodgers) have been around great quarterbacks, obviously.

We hear many of you saying you are only interested if they bring Brady, Manning or Rodgers with them, as the case may be.

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Green Bay blocked McAdoo from interviewing for coordinator jobs in 2012, at which point he was shifted from tight ends coach to quarterbacks coach.